LARKANA, July 30: Paramedics of the Chandka Medical College and its allied institutions boycotted assignments at the Out Patients Department for one hour on Monday, to press for the acceptance of their demands.

Protesters took out a rally from the OPD Block of the hospital and reached the press club where they observed token hunger strike.

Leaders told journalists that a notification to the effect of upgradation was announced on May 13, 2006 but the Sindh government under one or the other pretext had been applying delaying tactics.

Unnecessary delay, they said, had sent a wave of resentment among the 40,000 employees working in Sindh. The length of service should be made ‘base’ for framing ‘service structure’ of paramedics. Trained staff should be absorbed against the posts for which they qualify along with regularisation of services of drivers, lady health workers in the light of the laid down terms and conditions of the prime minister’s programme.

They announced that they would boycott OPD for one hour daily till August 4, and later hold demonstration in Karachi outside the Governor House.